/**
 * ***************************************************************************** Copyright (c) 2000,
 * 2008 IBM Corporation and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this
 * distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * <p>Contributors: IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * *****************************************************************************
 */
package org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.participants;

/**
 * A participant to participate in refactorings that delete elements. A delete participant can't
 * assume that its associated refactoring processor is a delete processor. A delete operation might
 * be a side effect of another refactoring operation.
 *
 * <p>Delete participants are registered via the extension point <code>
 * org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.deleteParticipants</code>. Extensions to this extension point
 * must therefore extend this abstract class.
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class DeleteParticipant extends RefactoringParticipant {

  private DeleteArguments fArguments;

  /** {@inheritDoc} */
  protected final void initialize(RefactoringArguments arguments) {
    fArguments = (DeleteArguments) arguments;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the delete arguments.
   *
   * @return the delete arguments
   */
  public DeleteArguments getArguments() {
    return fArguments;
  }
}
